The market for business software in Australia and New Zealand will grow to a value of US$7.3 billion in 2015, according to a new report from analyst firm Ovum. The resultant interest from software vendors could lead to better software for buyers.

Progress Responsive Process Management (RPM) R2.0 suite software allows enterprises to make changes in their business operations in response to patterns indicating impending business events, such as opportunities and threats.

Domain registrar and hosting provider Netregistry will offer two years of free online accounting software to all of its 250,000 customers, following an investment in online accounting provider Reach Accounting. The first 3000 customers to sign up will receive a total of five years of free access.

Clear Solar, one of Australia's largest solar power installation companies, has implemented a business-wide enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, giving staff a better view of the company's financials and inventory.

Canon has released eCopy v5 scanning and workflow software that enables the rapid deployment and management of eCopy across a business, with versions that scale to meet the performance requirements for workgroups, departments and global enterprises.

The Notes Migrator for SharePoint can be used for migrating Lotus Notes, Lotus QuickPlace/Quickr and Domino.Doc applications to SharePoint and SharePoint Online. It streamlines the process of migrating to SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Office 365, while providing high data fidelity and requiring fewer development resources.

The Dynamics CRM 2011 for on-premises and partner-hosted deployments complements the latest version of Dynamics CRM Online, which delivers Dynamics CRM 2011 as an on-demand cloud service from Microsoft’s data centres.

Migrating to a new operating system (OS) can be a mammoth task for organisations - from hardware compatibility checks, system requirement planning, backup of important data, down to the actual execution to hundreds or thousands of systems across an organisation and its remote offices.

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